Social Security has filed new final regulations to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow that will state that Social Security "is responsible for setting the time and place for a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ). This change creates a 3-year pilot program that will allow us to test this new authority."
Michael Astrue's term as Commissioner of Social Security will end before this three year time period expires.
If Palin is elected in 2012, she may reappoint Herr Astrue.
ReplyDeleteGreat time for this "experiment" with backlogs and increased filings. Some central command will now schedule cases throughout the country? They will coordinate the schedules of VE's, ME's, reps, claimants, and ALJ's? What an enormous new bureacracy that after three years will hardly be riffed.
Talk about one of the world's biggest "Ifs." Palin isn't going to be elected anything in 2012. She couldn't get re-elected governor in Alaska, for crying out loud.
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